Eight board books from BabyLit, each one a classic retold as a primer: Austen as opposites, Brontë as counting, Melville as the ocean, Tolstoy as fashion, Burnett as flowers, Kipling as animals, Shakespeare as a bedtime lullaby, and Homer with his monsters turned goofy. The words are for the baby. The authors are for everyone else.
What's inside
BabyLit Sense & Sensibility, opposites set against the Dashwood sisters' story, illustrated by Alison Oliver.
BabyLit Jane Eyre, a counting primer with period dresses, candlelit rooms and the silhouette of Thornfield Hall.
BabyLit Anna Karenina, one word a page beside a line from the novel, illustrated with its gowns.
BabyLit A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's own lines set as a lullaby, with fairies by Alison Oliver.
BabyLit The Secret Garden, roses, lilies and daffodils, drawn accurately enough to teach the real flowers.
BabyLit The Jungle Book, Mowgli, Bagheera and Baloo, with simple words beside short quotes from Kipling.
BabyLit Moby-Dick, an ocean primer of ships, sailors and squawking gulls, with the white whale at the center of it.
BabyLit The Odyssey, Homer's ghosts and Cyclops, goofy rather than frightening.
Why we built it
The First Edition is the Edit we built for the giver who'd rather send literature than almost anything else. Eight matched spines from the same series, so the row on the nursery shelf looks like it belongs in a library.
